lustrate /ˈlʌstreɪt/ verb. purify by expiatory sacrifice, ceremonial washing, or some other ritual action. - sudo touch /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE ⇒ on next reboot, during stage 1, everything but /nix and /boot is moved to /old-root - echo "etc/passwd" | sudo tee -a /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE ⇒ on next reboot, during stage 1, everything but /nix and /boot is moved to /old-root; except /etc/passwd is copied back. Useful for installing NixOS in place on another distro. For instance: $ nix-env -iE '_: with import <nixpkgs/nixos> { configuration = {}; }; with config.system.build; [ nixos-generate-config manual.manpages ]' $ sudo mkdir /etc/nixos $ sudo `which nixos-generate-config` … edit the configuration files in /etc/nixos using man configuration.nix if needed maybe add: users.extraUsers.root.initialHashedPassword = "" ? … Build the entire NixOS system and link it to the system profile: $ nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system -f '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A system --set … If you were using a single user install: $ sudo chown -R 0.0 /nix … NixOS is about to take over $ sudo touch /etc/NIXOS $ sudo touch /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE … Let's keep the configuration files we just created $ echo etc/nixos | sudo tee -a /etc/NIXOS_LUSTRATE $ sudo mv -v /boot /boot.bak && sudo /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/bin/switch-to-configuration boot $ sudo reboot … NixOS boots, Stage 1 moves all the old distro stuff in /old-root. |
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README.md |
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-16.03
for the latest
release and nixos-unstable
for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-16.03
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master
.
NixOS linux distribution source code is located inside
nixos/
folder.
- NixOS installation instructions
- Documentation (Nix Expression Language chapter)
- Manual (How to write packages for Nix)
- Manual (NixOS)
- Nix Wiki (deprecated, see milestone "Move the Wiki!")
- Continuous package builds for unstable/master
- Continuous package builds for 16.03 release
- Tests for unstable/master
- Tests for 16.03 release
Communication: